Mrs. Jenkins knew Maria enjoyed a unique ninth-grade talent. Despite Maria's heart being transferred away two decades ago, her body remained a precious possession. Maria's bones, blood, brain... Mrs. Jenkins' thoughts drifted to various organ transplants that could be done with Maria's body. She even felt sorry for Maria.

“Shall we check the data with the detector now, Mrs. Jenkins?" the cheeky Reuben asked.

Mrs. Jenkins, with a smirk, said, "Why don't you ask Canaan about it?"

She was keen to drag Canaan into the mockery, given his constant opposition to her schemes against Maria and Anthony.

Canaan felt a sting of bitterness, caught off guard by Anthony's seemingly mishap.

Canaan couldn't believe Anthony's talent to be this terrible. His talent was mediocre, even by the standards of the Jenkins family's average members.

“Mrs. Jenkins wants to hear what you think, Canaan," Reuben called out, adding to the awkward situation.

"Uh... I'm not sure..." Canaan was at a loss for words.

Just then, Anthony chimed in.

“Sorry, I haven't really started yet.

No need to operate the detector."

Everyone was stunned. What did that mean? Anthony had already touched the Oracle stone, hadn't he? How could he say he hadn't begun?

Then, Anthony rolled up his sleeve, showing off seven tiny "metal plates" on his forearm, each as small as a fingernail.

They clung to his skin, arranged in the inverse pattern of the Big Dipper.

Kent sensed something amiss.

"You... What's that? An ancient martial medical technique?" he inquired.

"Nope," Anthony replied with a grin.

"It's modern tech from Sophie's research institute. It sounds like something from the marital arts medical field, but it's not."

Mr. Barnes couldn't tear his eyes off the pattern of those “metal plates" arranged on Anthony's forearm. He feared this precisely inverse pattern of the unique acupuncture therapies he had adopted on Roy moments earlier would have some effects.

"And what's it for?" Mr. Barnes pressed.

Anthony didn't answer.

Maria, with a frosty voice, revealed, “While some of the acupuncture therapies can boost one's talent temporarily, some can hide one's true strength. It's a simple concept you fail to grasp. How silly of mem.

Mr. Barnes stared in disbelief, momentarily forgetting how Maria's earlier mockery.

He was sure there was nothing about hiding one's true strength in martial arts medicine. Did it truly come from modern medical technology in that research institute, like Anthony said?